Soft kitty

Chapter.. 10.....

..........Denial and a plastic smile.......

"Captain!"

Toshiro froze, as if his own ice had accidentally fissured it's way into his nervous system. His gaze as startled as his thumping heart, sought out the office's entrance while fear in it's most dignified form, fell from his aquamarine orbs. Momo Hinamori took a step back instantaneously, her feet almost having tripped her own footing after being shoved like the world's most contagious disease; unexpected, painful yet these emotions and actions of her best friend could have just as easily steamed from him being overtaken by a wave of utter embarrassment.

"Ran-Rangiku?"

"Hai captain, it's just me, i uh- I forgot my phone".... Said woman hastily tried to locate her missing item with an air of normality in her movements, one that eventaully ceased the crippling fear that had burrowed into her captain's system.

The swift shift in emotions were almost misable if not for that sudden taste of awkwardness that travelled between Momo and him. Yet he prayed that his mind had only been playing mere tricks due to his heart's constant battle, rather than the shattering notion of being caught locked in lips and tongue with his best friend by a woman he was still to unravel.

"Found it!" Matsumoto announced slightly cheerful before scuttling out of their presence; finally allowing that former air of discomfiture it's full rein.

"I-im sorry for jumping you like-"

"S-speak nothing of it".... Slightly hesitant, yet sharp in spite of him wanting to temper his ire, Toshiro's tone sliced her words as though they were mere blades; it's coldness even more chilling than the gaze he'd cast at her feet. " let's not do this again please?"

Not that there were much to be lost but their centuries long friendship, but Momo Hinamori needed answers just the same, inspite of her own unsurety in regards to this uh- sudden attractiveness she'd developed on a whim. Call her Implicitly vain, but vain she might have been for attempting to stake her claim on a man that knew not the damning effects of his stand- offish persona.

"What is it about me that is so detestable, that you won't even spare some emotions rather than friendship or cordiality?" Blame her short stature for looking like a lost fool, but blame her quivering lips for sounding like a woman lost in love's peril.

"Momo-its not that you're unattractive" Hitsugaya struggled for a few seconds. Placating broken and bruised hearts was never his forte, however, most would assert this was his own fucking doing. "I'm not at that point yet where I'm ready to seek such kinds of fulfillment"... This was partially true admitted he, for the other half of his reasons were a mystery he was yet to fully comprehend and untangle.

" What if I'm not looking for something of such serious-?"

"DO NOT GO THERE!" Voice risen like an outcry for her to stop with this poor sentencing, the captain once more tried to temper his ire. What in the world had posessed his best friend before these wretched words fell from her mouth?

"Do not place lesser value on your self in order to obtain this kind of trifling thing- Momo you deserve some one who loves you for you and desires to be with you just as much as you long for them"

A small huff exited her lungs. Be it sarcastic or more resigned, Hinamori had heard enough as it is. Some one that longs for her just as much as she longs for them. That line might as well read, 'I'm not interested in you in that capacity, at least not the way you want me to be'.... Fair and simple yet, they were difficult pills to swallow, she struggled to accept.

"Im-Forgive me- Captain" and she ran, leaving with out a warning, with tears no doubt lining those beautiful cinnamon eyes. Toshiro's feelings drifted into that sickening realm of utter and complete shit. His undefined stirrings towards a woman he barely knew continuously baffled his thought process in ways he was yet to disentangle. Though he might have known of the woman, truth be told, Kurosaki Karin's entirety still remained an unsolved Enigma. Her lure, that profound drive that both her and Ichigo possessed, this stubborn unbending will had to it both a frightening and magnetic effect; a cleverly spun trap he'd caught himself in.